So I had this crazy idea I was wanting to use for the base of my (chaos) Knight. I was thinking about having a rhino or other space marine vehicle wrecked under one foot, but instead of the usual methods of making a tank look destroyed, I wanted to have maybe half of it melted away. The idea is that it was destroyed by the Knight's thermal cannon.

My working idea was to take my vehicle of choice and then hold a hot frying pan next to one side (without letting it touch the model) until I got the desired result, but I don't actually know if that would work. Have any of y'all tried something like this? Any tips for getting this type of effect?